The annual Elvis Night at U. S. Cellular Field. Starting outside the park, everything is just about the same as every year - impersonators on stages performing to the crowd. The crowd every year is what changes. I'm convinced that this year, everything is just tweaked-up a notch. There just seems like more people are "dressing" the part, whether they went the full jumpsuit approach, with hair and glasses, or just partially participating by wearing the aviator sunglasses with fake sideburns hanging from the frames. There are more kids dressing up, too. You know, 6-9 year olds. Odd. Then there's always the people that - you can just tell - are the real Elvis fans, still basking in the glow of the King, even when the King is fake. Poor Shawn Klush had equipment problems outside and the CD player with his background music kept cutting out.

Inside, the park was a sell-out. It's the 11th Sell-Out of the year - and is a franchise record. I fell embarrassed knowing that 11 sellouts in a year is a franchise record.

The E-Team flew in the flag during the National Anthem (sung by Shawn Klush) and had did their lighted-jump after the game in the dark. The Steppin' Out Dads did their little routines after the game and Shawn Klush headlined the post-game concert and then we had the best Elvis-night fireworks that I've seen.

Didn't win the Sox Split Charity Raffle this year (It was over $6,300) - the dry spell continues to three years.

Somehow, by going to the game alone, I didn't pay attention to the game play itself, and only knew that we lost the game, and it was Freddie Garcia pitching against his old team. Our only 2 runs were solo homeruns by Rowand and Pierzynski.

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